LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
WOMEN'S RIGHTS. WELLINGTON, This Day. The Legislative Council met yesterday at 2.80 p.m. Sir Francis Bell gav e notice of his intention to introduce the Women's Parliamentary Rights Bill (No. 2). HOUSING BILL. The Housing Bill was read a second time pro forma and referred to the Statutes Revision Committee. FIRST READINGS. The following bills received from th c House of Representatives were read a first time:—Treaties of Peace, External Affairs, Public Health Amendment, and Expeditionary Force's Voting. FINAL STAGES. The Tauranga Borough Council Electric Loans Empowering, and the Manawatu County Loan Empowering Amendment bills were put through their final stages and passed. JUNIOR CADETS. The Hon. C. A. C. Hardy moved: "That it would be in th e best, interests of the Dominion if the Government would re-establish the Cadet system that obtained in the national schools before 1912." Sir F. D. Bell said that as a member of the Government which had abolished the Junior Cadet system he could not be expected to declare in its favour. A resolution of ihe Council, however, would be treated with due respect by the Government of the day. The motion was carried on the voices, without dissent, and the Council adjourned at 4.15 p.m.
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Northern Advocate, 22 October 1919, Page 3
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